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Ever since there have been text editors, there has been the consideration of what font to use to display text. Fonts have progressed from a single choice to screen fonts (remember FIXEDSYS?) to TrueType to ClearType, and so have the choices of what to...

OK, I just got into a little debate with my cohort Bill Steele over a few lines of code. Why don't you, dear readers, take a look for yourselves: Private Function DoSomething() As Boolean Try Return True Catch ex As Exception Finally MessageBox.Show(...

I have a question that I cannot figure out because I can't figure out how to phrase it in a search engine. Maybe one of my readers has the answer?
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We're putting together some of our marketing materials for next quarter's MSDN Events. I'm interested in your opnions of the session abstracts in this post (read on to find them). Do they make you feel compelled to see the content? Do you like the titles? Are these too "markety" for developers?
Your feedback is welcome! Thanks.
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Thanks to those who attended my webcast "Exploring the System.Net namespace" earlier this week.
Here is the sample code and slide deck (about 500k download) and I'm still working on the questions that were asked so check back Friday!
(Note that...

Well, after months of planning, umpteen conference calls, at least a dozen content revisions, and one rough karaoke song at a team meeting practicing delivery... ...we finally kicked of our launch tour starting in Greenville, SC. There was a great crowd...

*sigh* Why can’t web developers agree on a standard naming convention for accessing mobile-device friendly pages?!?!
Tonight I was trying to search on Amazon for a book from my iPAQ h6315. The full interface was frustrating and slow, so I wanted...

I just read this interesting article about technology that anticipates fast-food customers' orders . The system takes information like sandwich promotions, vehicle types in line, historical trends, etc. and predicts what food should be prepared when....

I've heard that if you speak multiple languages with about equal fluency (which I do not) the real test to see which is your primary language is to figure out what language you dream in.
Related to that, for developers, are the habits that you form...

In October we launch yet another series of fun and informative, and (hopefully) useful MSDN Events. We've recently had a change of topics, so when you go to register, ignore what you read there. :) These are our actual topics: What’s New for Web Development...

The next meeting of the .NET Pub Club Southeast will be following the MSDN Event in Charlotte, NC on June 10th.
This will be a fun evening of free food and soft drinks (you can buy harder stuff if you want too!). It's a chance for you to mingle with...

I mentioned in an earlier blog entry that I'm up here at the MSDN Event outside of Worcester, MA. What I didn't tell you is that this event is the pilot launch of of our Microsoft Across America mobile event experience truck. This is an awesome vehicle...

I just picked up from Doug Turnure’s blog that David Chappell will be speaking at the May 18th meeting of the Atlanta VB.NET study group about “Understanding Inigo” (see below for abstract). I hear seats will be hard to get, so come...

In our quest to make MSDN Events a way for us to foster developer connections in our cities, we’re trying an experiment. On the morning of this coming MSDN Event in Atlanta , we’ll be hosting deep technical dive that (for lack of a better...

Registration is finally open for the big three-day TechDays event in Atlanta! Check out all the cool sessions, each offered from 1-5 PM on each day. Click the day name to register.
Tuesday - The Southeast developer community presents "WebDev Fundamentals...

Well, not if you ask my wife, I guess. Forty years ago today BASIC was born at Dartmouth college. Could they have ever envisioned a language as powerful and respectable as VisualBasic.NET back then? I think it's fascinating how far the language has progressed...

Several folks at my sessions have asked how to create a report in SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services Report Designer based on a stored procedure. Keep in mind, there are some tricky steps if you are using the report wizard. You don't get the opportunity...

In just a few weeks I'll be bringing the latest MSDN Events to the Triad area (as well as Greenville, SC ). You can register via those links as well as see details about the topics we're covering - VSTS Database Edition, Windows Workflow Foundation, and...

It's official - we've just received confirmation that when you attend at least one of the launch tracks for the Microsoft Across America Vista and Office launch events, you'll receive a FREE copy of Office 2007 and Groove. See below for the details. So...

The current quarter of MSDN Events content is off and running - but, due to the large number of events we did last quarter around the launch of Vista and Office 2007, the number of cities is much lower than a typical quarter. So this Spring we will only...

About Pla.NET Southeast!

A message about the author:

Hi, readers! The posts on this old blog are preserved for reference by generations of Internet users to come. OK, maybe not that long. In either case, Glen doesn't blog here anymore. Click here to visit Glen's current blog